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Continue reading →: Cauliflower cheese & spinach pasta bakes
Ingredients 850ml milk 50g plain flour 50g butter, plus 1 tbsp 1 tsp Dijon mustard 100g extra mature cheddar, grated 25-50g blue cheese ½ tsp finely grated nutmeg 250g penne 1kg cauliflower (2 medium ones), cut into florets 750g frozen spinach (whole leaf), defrosted and squeezed dry 25g toasted pine…
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Continue reading →: Yaki udon
250g dried udon noodles (400g frozen or fresh) 2 tbsp sesame oil 1 onion, thickly sliced ¼ head white cabbage, roughly sliced 10 shiitake mushrooms 4 spring onions, finely sliced For the sauce 4 tbsp mirin 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp caster sugar 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce (or vegetarian…
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Continue reading →: Canines and cooker
Okay an oddish sort of week! The main thing is that our gas cooker (that was here when we moved in) was giving up the ghost and so we got a new one installed (bought through John Lewis and the two chaps that came to install it couldn't have been…
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Continue reading →: Quorn Meat Free Sausage Casserole with Beans
Ingredients 1 pack Quorn Sausages, cut into diagonal pieces 2 tbsp olive oil 2 onions, thinly sliced 2 garlic cloves, crushed 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced 1 green pepper, deseeded and diced 100g sweetcorn 1 tsp smoked paprika 2 tsp mild chilli powder 100ml apple juice 400g tin…
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Continue reading →: Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces Thai Curry
Ingredients 300g pack Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces 2 tbsp dark sweet soy sauce 1 tbsp vegetable oil 6-8 shallots or 2 small red onions, quartered 1-2 tbsp Thai green curry paste 200ml tinned coconut milk 1 medium carrot, cut into long thin strips 100g mange tout 100g bamboo…
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Continue reading →: New potato and chorizo tortilla
Many countries have their own version of an open omelette. The Italians have frittata, the Spanish tortilla. In France it is Spanish omelette. Traditionally it wouldn’t be new season potatoes used in this dish – it would be bigger main crop potatoes – but I wanted to celebrate the…
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Continue reading →: Cushion, cleaning and Cairns
Hmm the younger of our two Cairn Terriers has a habit of scratching at the sofa cushions to make them comfortable to lie on, this is not good for the fabric longevity! Last year OH was given some upholstery fabric samples (a work colleague's relative no longer needed them) and…
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Continue reading →: Medieval Dog Needlepoint Update March
Okay the top half (shown in the bottom picture!) is a little dark, but hopefully people can see that the mid blue is pretty much done (again I need to work on the medallions but they will be the last thing before the white of the dog), I am now…
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Continue reading →: Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces Thai Green Curry
All of Thailand’s most mouth-watering flavours come together in this dish to create an enticingly exotic Thai green curry, made with Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces, sweet coconut milk, fiery chilli, and a refreshing zing of lime. Ingredients 300g pack Quorn Meat Free Chicken Pieces, defrosted 2 tbsp light…
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Continue reading →: Quick hot and sour noodle soup
Ingredients For the soup 1 tbsp groundnut oil 2.5cm/1in piece fresh root ginger, peeled and thinly sliced 2 handfuls fresh shiitake mushrooms, sliced 1 red chilli, de-seeded, finely chopped 1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry 700ml/1 pint 5fl oz vegetable stock 220g/8oz canned bamboo shoots, drained and rinsed…
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